Leah Albright-Byrd was 14 when she ran away from home and met a man who offered her love and protection if she sold her body and gave him the money. His offer quickly became a demand, and she spent the next 10 years working, essentially, as a slave to a...

Two children who wrote a scathing obituary of their mother that appeared in Tuesday's Reno Gazette-Journal did not expect the obit to go viral. However, they describe a horrific childhood of abuse and neglect by Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick, who died ...

Kathleen Rand got lousy service at a Sparks pharmacy, so she called another to have the order moved. But the old pharmacy wouldn't let it go. When she learned that Nevada law allowed pharmacies to refuse to transfer prescriptions, she called a lawmaker...

Fifty years ago today, Reno police found Sonja McCaskie's mutilated body in a cedar chest in her Reno duplex. Even by the standards of first-degree murder, McCaskie’s killing and rape was gruesome. Police called it the worst murder in the history of Reno....

Federal officials who awarded a $1.5 million grant to a Reno man failed to report him to the federal agency charged with fighting grant waste, fraud and abuse, despite indications he was misusing grant funds and had received complaints that his company...

When Jose Cruz was in the fifth grade, Washoe County school officials and its police department flagged him as an at-risk youth who showed growing signs of gang and criminal activity, including smoking marijuana.
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At least 40 of the 113 people convicted since 2000 of killing or severely injuring someone while driving drunk did not spend two years in prison as required by law, according to a Reno Gazette-Journal investigation.
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